Hello, Locksley here again!

Today is a very exciting day. The men are coming this afternoon to fit the awning outside our window. It’s like a sunshade that comes out from the roof and sticks out over the plants and gives us more shade. We can sit under it on the other side of the plants (the butterfly bush, so it isn’t being cut down).

Mummy says there will be some drilling into our wall to fix it up above the door. She’ll either put us in our runs in the garden, or in our boxes in the front room. She knows we won’t like the sound of it drilling into our wall. I’m not sure we’ll like the sound of it in the garden, either, but our runs are a little further away, and it won’t be so noisy in the open air. No worse than next door.

Well, that might be very loud. But we’ll know it isn’t for long. And it depends whether it’s warm and dry enough for us to go out. If it isn’t, we’ll be in our boxes in the front room, probably with some music to help disguise the noise. And it won’t take long.

This week has been both sunny and wet. We went out on the grass lots of times, and Mummy moved the runs to a new part a little further from the house. She took a photo of where we’d been. You can tell where the join was between our run and Pippin’s! And where ours finished. Pippin seemed to leave a large patch of grass and clover. Mummy says we’ll have a chance to eat that later.

There were lots and lots of butterflies out when it was sunny. Mummy counted 24 butterflies on our buddliea outside our window. Mainly Peacocks and Red Admirals, but also Large and Small Whites, Painted Ladies, Brimstones, and yesterday for the first time this year, a Comma. And there are Holly Blues and Gatekeepers in other parts of the garden. Sometimes they sit on other things to sun themselves. Mummy’s leg, for one. And there’s a picture of one on Neville’s fiddlesticks. They haven’t come and rested on me yet. Maybe I should stay still longer.

I’ll get a picture of our new awning for you next week. I hope you’ll like it.

Love

Locksley xxxx